Brief Bio

Dr. Dorothy K. Hall is a Research Scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) / University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Following her retirement as Associate Lab Chief and Senior Scientist in the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, she was a Fixed-Term Full Professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, 2015 – 2017. Her research interests include remote sensing of snow, small glaciers & the Greenland Ice Sheet, lake ice and sea ice, with a focus on decade-scale changes. She received a Ph.D. from University of Maryland in the Department of Geographic Sciences. While at NASA Dr. Hall led the MODIS Snow and Sea Ice Mapping Project which develops and maintains snow and ice algorithms for products that are used by researchers worldwide. She has authored one book, Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow, by D.K. Hall and J. Martinec (1985), 19 book chapters, more than 145 journal articles, and more than155 other papers. She has mentored many graduate students and post-doctoral scientists and served on master's and Ph.D. committees at various universities. She has been an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the Dept. of Geography and Geology (2009 – 10), an Affiliated Professor at George Mason University in the Earth Science and GeoInformation Systems Dept. (2005 – 06), and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the University of Delaware Dept. of Geography (2002 – 03). She is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2009) as well as other NASA and external-to-NASA awards. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Publications

Refereed

Hall, D. K., J. S. Kimball, R. Larson, et al. N. E. DiGirolamo, K. A. Casey, and G. Hulley. 2023. "Intensified Warming and Aridity Accelerate Terminal Lake Desiccation in the Great Basin of the Western United States." Earth and Space Science 10 (1): [10.1029/2022ea002630]

Hall, D. K., D. S. O'Leary, N. E. DiGirolamo, W. Miller, and D. H. Kang. 2021. "The role of declining snow cover in the desiccation of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, using MODIS data." Remote Sensing of Environment 252 112106 [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112106]

Riggs, G., and D. Hall. 2020. "Continuity of MODIS and VIIRS Snow Cover Extent Data Products for Development of an Earth Science Data Record." Remote Sensing 12 (22): 3781 [10.3390/rs12223781]

Cullather, R. I., L. C. Andrews, M. J. Croteau, et al. N. E. Digirolamo, D. K. Hall, Y.-K. Lim, B. D. Loomis, C. A. Shuman, and S. M. Nowicki. 2020. "Anomalous circulation in July 2019 resulting in mass loss on the Greenland ice sheet." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (17): [10.1029/2020GL087263]

Duncan, B. N., L. E. Ott, J. B. Abshire, et al. L. Brucker, M. L. Carroll, J. Carton, J. C. Comiso, E. P. Dinnat, B. C. Forbes, A. Gonsamo, W. W. Gregg, D. K. Hall, I. Ialongo, R. Jandt, R. A. Kahn, A. Karpechko, S. R. Kawa, S. Kato, T. Kumpula, E. Kyrölä, T. V. Loboda, K. C. McDonald, P. M. Montesano, R. Nassar, C. S. Neigh, C. L. Parkinson, B. Poulter, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, B. M. Rogers, C. S. Rousseaux, A. J. Soja, N. Steiner, J. Tamminen, P. C. Taylor, M. A. Tzortziou, H. Virta, J. S. Wang, J. D. Watts, D. M. Winker, and D. L. Wu. 2020. "Space‐Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic‐Boreal Zone." Reviews of Geophysics 58 (1): 2019RG000652 [10.1029/2019rg000652]

Román, M. O., Z. Wang, Q. Sun, et al. V. Kalb, S. D. Miller, A. Molthan, L. Schultz, J. Bell, E. C. Stokes, B. Pandey, K. C. Seto, D. Hall, T. Oda, R. E. Wolfe, G. Lin, N. Golpayegani, S. Devadiga, C. Davidson, S. Sarkar, C. Praderas, J. Schmaltz, R. Boller, J. Stevens, O. M. Ramos González, E. Padilla, J. Alonso, Y. Detrés, R. Armstrong, I. Miranda, Y. Conte, N. Marrero, K. MacManus, T. Esch, and E. J. Masuoka. 2018. "NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite." Remote Sensing of Environment 210 113-143 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.017]

Hall, D., R. Cullather, N. DiGirolamo, et al. J. Comiso, B. Medley, and S. Nowicki. 2018. "A Multilayer Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor Product of Greenland from MODIS." Remote Sensing 10 (4): 555 [10.3390/rs10040555]

Adolph, A. C., M. R. Albert, and D. K. Hall. 2018. "Near-surface temperature inversion during summer at Summit, Greenland, and its relation to MODIS-derived surface temperatures." The Cryosphere 12 (3): 907-920 [10.5194/tc-12-907-2018]

Hall, D. K., A. Frei, and N. E. DiGirolamo. 2018. "On the frequency of lake-effect snowfall in the Catskill Mountains." Physical Geography 1-17 [10.1080/02723646.2018.1440827]

Riggs, G. A., D. K. Hall, and M. O. Román. 2017. "Overview of NASA's MODIS and VIIRS Snow-Cover Earth SystemData Records." Earth System Science Data Discussions 1-30 [10.5194/essd-2017-25]

Hall, D. K., C. J. Crawford, N. E. Digirolamo, G. A. Riggs, and J. L. Foster. 2015. "Detection of earlier snowmelt in the Wind River Range, Wyoming, using Landsat imagery, 1972–2013." Remote Sensing of Environment 162 45-54 [10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.032]

Hall, D. K., S. V. Nghiem, I. G. Rigor, and J. A. Miller. 2015. "Uncertainties of temperature measurements on snow-covered land and sea ice from in situ and MODIS data during BROMEX." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54 (5): 966-978 [Full Text (Link)] [10.1175/JAMC-D-114-01751.1]

Turrin, J. B., R. R. Forster, J. M. Sauber, D. K. Hall, and R. L. Bruhn. 2014. "Effects of bedrock lithology and subglacial till on the motion of Ruth Glacier, Alaska, deduced from five pulses from 1973 to 2012." Journal of Glaciology 60 (222): 771-781 [Full Text (Link)] [10.3189/2014JoG13J182]

Shuman, C. A., D. K. Hall, N. E. Digirolamo, T. K. Mefford, and M. J. Schnaubelt. 2014. "Comparison of Near-Surface Air Temperatures and MODIS Ice-Surface Temperatures at Summit, Greenland (2008–13)." J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. 53 (9): 2171–2180 [10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0023.1]

Sugg, J. W., L. B. Perry, D. K. Hall, and G. A. Riggs. 2014. "Satellite perspectives on the spatial patterns of new snowfall in the Southern Appalachian Mountains." Hydrological Processes 28 (16): 4602-4613 [10.1002/hyp.10196]

Polashenski, C., Z. Courville, C. Benson, et al. A. Wagner, J. Chen, G. Wong, R. Hawley, and D. K. Hall. 2014. "Observations of pronounced Greenland ice sheet firn warming and implications for runoff production." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (12): 4238–4246 [10.1002/2014GL059806]

Dong, J., M. Ek, D. K. Hall, et al. C. D. Peters-Lidard, B. Cosgrove, J. Miller, G. Riggs, and Y. Xia. 2014. "Using Air Temperature to Quantitatively Predict the MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Retrieval Errors over the Continental United States." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (2): 551-562 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-060.1]

Giffen, B. A., D. K. Hall, and J. Y. Chien. 2014. "Alaska: Glaciers of Kenai Fjords National Park and Katmai National Park and Preserve." Global Land Ice Measurements from Space: Satellite Multispectral Imaging of Glaciers 241-261 [10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_11]

Hall, D. K., A. Frei, and S. Déry. 2014. "“Snow Extent” in a chapter called Remote sensing of snow cover." Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

Nghiem, S., D. K. Hall, I. G. Rigor, and P. Li. 2014. "Effects of Mackenzie River discharge and bathymetry on sea ice in the Beaufort Sea." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (3): 873-879 [10.1002/2013GL058956]

Comiso, J., and D. Hall. 2014. "Climate trends in the Arctic as observed from space." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 5 (3): 389-409 [10.1002/wcc.277]

Hakkinen, S., D. K. Hall, C. A. Shuman, D. L. Worthen, and N. E. DiGirolamo. 2014. "Greenland ice sheet melt from MODIS and associated atmospheric variability." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (5): 1600-1607 [10.1002/2013GL059185]

Hall, D. K., J. C. Comiso, N. E. Digirolamo, et al. C. A. Shuman, J. E. Box, and L. S. Koenig. 2013. "Variability in the surface temperature and melt extent of the Greenland ice sheet from MODIS." Geophys. Res. Lett 40 (10): 2114-2120 [10.1002/grl.50240]

Crawford, C. J., S. M. Manson, M. E. Bauer, and D. K. Hall. 2013. "Multitemporal snow cover mapping in mountainous terrain for Landsat climate data record development." Remote Sensing of Environment 135 224-233 [10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.004]

Gladkova, I., M. Grossberg, G. Bonev, et al. P. Romanov, G. Riggs, and D. Hall. 2013. "A Full Snow Season in Yellowstone: A Database of Restored Aqua Band 6." IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. 10 (3): 553-557 [10.1109/LGRS.2012.2213063]

Justice, C., M. O. Roman, I. Csiszar, et al. E. Vermote, R. E. Wolfe, S. J. Hook, M. Friedl, Z. Wang, C. B. Schaaf, T. Miura, M. Tschudi, G. Riggs, D. K. Hall, A. I. Lyapustin, S. Devadiga, C. C. Davidson, and E. J. Masuoka. 2013. "Land and cryosphere products from Suomi NPP VIIRS: Overview and status." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (17): 9753-9765 [10.1002/jgrd.50771]

Hall, D. K., and D. A. Robinson. 2012. "Global Snow Cover." Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers [Full Text (Link)]

Foster, J., G. S. Jackson, H. Meng, et al. J.-J. Wang, G. Riggs, P. J. Kocin, B. T. Johnson, J. Cohen, D. K. Hall, S. V. Nghiem, and J.-J. Wang. 2012. "Passive microwave remote sensing of the historic February 2010 snowstorms in the Middle Atlantic region of the USA." Hydrol. Processes 26 (22): 3459-3471 [10.1002/hyp.8418]

Hall, D., J. Comiso, N. DiGirolamo, et al. C. Shuman, J. Key, and L. Koenig. 2012. "A Satellite-Derived Climate-Quality Data Record of the Clear-Sky Surface Temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet." Journal of Climate 25 (14): 4785-4798 [10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00365.1]

Box, J., X. Fettweis, J. C. Stroeve, et al. M. Tedesco, D. K. Hall, and K. Steffen. 2012. "Hydrologic controls on coastal suspended sediment plumes around the Greenland Ice Sheet." The Cryosphere 6 (1): 1-19 [10.5194/tc-6-1-2012]

Nghiem, S., D. Hall, T. Mote, et al. M. Tedesco, M. Albert, K. Keegan, C. Shuman, and N. DiGirolamo. 2012. "The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012." Geophys Res Lett 39 (20): L20502 [10.1029/2012GL053611]

Hall, D., J. Foster, N. DiGirolamo, and G. Riggs. 2012. "Snow cover, snowmelt timing and stream power in the Wind River Range, Wyoming." Geomorphology 137 (1): 87-93 [10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.11.011]

Hall, D., J. L. Foster, S. Kumar, J. Y. Chien, and G. A. Riggs. 2012. "Improving the accuracy of the AFWA-NASA (ANSA) blended snow-cover product over the Lower Great Lakes region." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 9 (1): 1141-1161 [10.5194/hessd-9-1141-2012]

Nghiem, S., I. Rigor, A. Richter, et al. J. Burrows, P. Shepson, J. Bottenheim, D. Barber, A. Steffen, J. Latonas, F. Wang, G. Stern, P. Clemente-Colon, S. Martin, D. Hall, L. Kaleschke, P. Tackett, G. Neumann, and M. Asplin. 2012. "Field and satellite observations of the formation and distribution of Arctic atmospheric bromine above a rejuvenated sea ice cover." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D17): D00S05 [10.1029/2011JD016268]

Foster, J. L., D. K. Hall, J. B. Eylander, et al. G. A. Riggs, S. V. Nghiem, M. Tedesco, E. J. Kim, P. M. Montesano, R. E. Kelly, K. A. Casey, and B. J. Choudhury. 2011. "A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer satellite data." International Journal of Remote Sensing 32 (5): 1371-1395 [10.1080/01431160903548013]

Koenig, L. S., and D. K. Hall. 2010. "Comparison of satellite, thermochron and air temperatures at Summit, Greenland, during the winter of 2008/09." Journal of Glaciology 56 (198): 735-741 [10.3189/002214310793146269]

Cavalieri, D. J., T. Markus, D. K. Hall, A. Ivanoff, and G. Emily. 2010. "Assessment of AMSR-E Antarctic Winter Sea-Ice Concentrations Using Aqua MODIS." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (9): 3331- 3339 [10.1109/TGRS.2010.2046495]

Lyapustin, A., C. Gatebe, R. Kahn, et al. R. Brandt, J. Redemann, P. Russell, M. King, C. Pedersen, S. Gerland, R. Poudyal, A. Marshak, Y. Wang, C. Schaaf, D. Hall, and A. Kokhanovsky. 2010. "Analysis of snow bidirectional reflectance from ARCTAS Spring-2008 Campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10 (9): 4359-4375 [10.5194/acp-10-4359-2010]

Akyurek, Z., D. K. Hall, G. A. Riggs, and A. Sensoy. 2010. "Evaluating the utility of the ANSA blended snow cover product in the mountains of eastern Turkey." International Journal of Remote Sensing 31 (14): 3727-3744 [10.1080/01431161.2010.483484]

Hall, D. K., G. A. Riggs, J. L. Foster, and S. V. Kumar. 2010. "Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product." Remote Sens Environ 114 (3): 496-503 [10.1016/j.rse.2009.10.007]

Foster, J., D. Hall, R. E. Kelly, and L. Chiu. 2009. "Seasonal snow extent and snow mass in South America using SMMR and SSM/I passive microwave data (1979–2006)." Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (2): 291-305 [10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.010]

Hall, D. K., S. Nghiem, C. Schaaf, N. DiGirolamo, and G. Neumann. 2009. "Evaluation of surface and near-surface melt characteristics on the Greenland ice sheet using MODIS and QuikSCAT data." J. Geophys. Res. 114 (F4): F04006 [10.1029/2009JF001287]

Hall, D. K., R. S. Williams, S. B. Luthcke, and N. E. Digirolamo. 2008. "Greenland ice sheet surface temperature, melt and mass loss: 2000–06." Journal of Glaciology 54 (184): 81-93 [10.3189/002214308784409170]

Hall, D. K., J. E. Box, K. A. Casey, et al. S. J. Hook, C. A. Shuman, and K. Steffen. 2008. "Comparison of satellite-derived and in-situ observations of ice and snow surface temperatures over Greenland." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (10): 3739-3749 [10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.007]

Hall, D. K., and G. A. Riggs. 2007. "Accuracy assessment of the MODIS snow products." Hydrological Processes 21 (12): 1534-1547 [10.1002/hyp.6715]

Moody, E. G., M. D. King, C. L. Schaaf, D. K. Hall, and S. E. Platnick. 2007. "Northern Hemisphere five-year average (2000–2004) spectral albedos of surfaces in the presence of snow: Statistics computed from Terra MODIS land products." Remote Sensing of Environment 111 (2-3): 337-345 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.03.026]

Cavalieri, D. J., T. Markus, D. K. Hall, et al. A. Gasiewski, M. Klein, and A. Ivanoff. 2006. "Assessment of EOS Aqua AMSR-E Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations Using Landsat-7 and Airborne Microwave Imagery." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 44 (11): 3057-3069 [10.1109/TGRS.2006.878445]

Hall, D. K., R. S. Williams Jr., K. Casey, N. E. Digirolamo, and Z. Wan. 2006. "Satellite-derived, melt-season surface temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2000–2005) and its relationship to mass balance." Geophysical Research Letters 33 (11): L11501 [10.1029/2006GL026444]

Hall, D. K., M. Kaminski, D. J. Cavalieri, et al. R. E. Dickinson, M. Marquis, G. A. Riggs, D. A. Robinson, M. Van Woert, and R. E. Wolfe. 2005. "Earth Observing System snow and ice products for observation and modeling." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 86 (7): 67-67 [10.1029/2005EO070004]

Dery, S. J., V. V. Salomonson, M. Stieglitz, D. K. Hall, and I. Appel. 2005. "An approach to using snow areal depletion curves inferred from MODIS and its application to land surface modelling in Alaska." Hydrol. Process. 19 (14): 2755-2774 [10.1002/hyp.5784]

Hall, D. K., R. E. Kelly, J. L. Foster, and A. T. Chang. 2005. "Estimation of Snow Extent and Snow Properties." Encyclopedia Hydrol Sci 811-830

Hall, D. K., J. Key, K. A. Casey, G. A. Riggs, and D. J. Cavalieri. 2004. "Sea ice surface temperature product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)." IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sensing 42 1076-1087

Kelly, J. R., A. T. Chang, J. L. Foster, and D. K. Hall. 2004. "Using remote sensing and spatial models to monitor snow depth and snow water equivalent." Spatial Modeling of the Terrestrial Environment, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd 35-37

Hall, D. K., K. J. Bayr, W. Schoner, R. A. Bindschadler, and J. Y. Chien. 2003. "Consideration of the errors inherent in mapping historical glacier positions in Austria from the ground and space (1893-2001)." Remote Sensing of Environment 86 (4): 566-577 [10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00134-2]

Hall, D. K., G. A. Riggs, V. V. Salomonson, N. DiGirolamo, and K. J. Bayr. 2002. "MODIS snow-cover products." Remote Sensing of Environment 83 181-194

Hall, D. K., J. L. Foster, V. V. Salomonson, A. G. Klein, and J. Y. Chien. 2001. "Development of a Technique to Assess Snow-Cover Mapping Errors from Space." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39 (2): 432-438 [10.1109/36.905251]

Hall, D. K., R. S. Williams Jr, J. S. Barton, et al. O. Sigurdsson, L. C. Smith, and J. B. Garvin. 2000. "Evaluation of Remote Sensing Techniques to Measure Decadal-Scale Changes in the Mass Balance of Hofsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland." Journal of Glaciology 46 (154): 375-388

Ledley, T. S., E. Sundquist, S. E. Schwartz, et al. D. K. Hall, J. Fellows, and T. Killeen. 1999. "Climate change and greenhouse gasses." Eos Trans. AGU 80 (39): 453-458 [10.1029/99EO00325]

Foster, J. L., D. K. Hall, A. T. Chang, et al. A. Rango, W. Wergin, and E. Erbe. 1999. "Effects of snow crystal shape on the scattering of passive microwave radiation." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 37 (2): 1165-1168 [10.1109/36.752235]

Riggs, G. A., D. K. Hall, and S. A. Ackerman. 1999. "Sea ice extent and classification with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Airborne Simulator (MAS)." Remote Sensing of Environment 68 (2): 152-163

Winther, J. G., and D. K. Hall. 1999. "Satellite-derived snow coverage related to hydropower production in Norway - present and future." International Journal of Remote Sensing 20 (15, 16): 2991-3008

Klein, A. G., D. K. Hall, and G. A. Riggs. 1998. "Improving Snow-cover mapping in forests through the use of canopy reflectance model." Hydrological Processes 12 (40462): 1723-1744

Justice, C. O., E. Vermote, J. R. Townshend, et al. R. Defries, D. Roy, D. K. Hall, V. V. Salomonson, J. L. Privette, G. A. Riggs, A. Strahler, W. Lucht, R. B. Myneni, Y. Knyazikhin, S. W. Running, R. R. Nemani, Z. Wan, A. R. Huete, W. van Leeuwen, R. E. Wolfe, L. Giglio, J. Muller, P. Lewis, and M. J. Barnsley. 1998. "The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land Remote Sensing for Global Change Research." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 36 (4): 1228-1249 [10.1109/36.701075]

Hall, D. K., J. L. Foster, J. Irons, and P. W. Dabney. 1993. "Airborne bidirectional radiances of snow-covered surfaces in Montana, USA." Annals of Glaciology 17 (1): 35-40 [10.3198/1993AoG17-1-35-40]

Hall, D. K., and J. Martinec. 1985. "Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow." 189p.

Non-Refereed

Bishop, M. P., A. B. Bush, R. Furfaro, et al. A. R. Gillespie, D. K. Hall, U. K. Haritashya, and J. J. Shroder. 2014. "Theoretical Foundations of Remote Sensing for Glacier Assessment and Mapping (Chapter 2)." Global Land Ice Measurements from Space 23-525 [10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_2]

Casey, K. A., E. J. Kim, M. T. Hallikainen, et al. J. L. Foster, D. K. Hall, and G. A. Riggs. 2008. "Validation of the AFWA-NASA blended snow-cover product in Finland, 2006-2007." Proceedings of the 65th Eastern Snow Conference, Fairlee, Vermont

Hall, D. K., R. Solberg, K. A. Casey, and J.-G. Winther. 2004. "Comparison of MODIS and SnowStar Snow Maps in Scandinavia." Proceedings of the 61st Eastern Snow Conference, Portland, ME